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Hearing Mairis' words, Li Jiacheng's heart felt like it had been struck by lightning, and he was instantly stunned.

He never expected that the talent he had his eye on had already agreed to join another company.

Li Jiacheng had left early this morning to go to the airport, and after arriving in Singapore, he was busy dealing with matters at the local branch, so he simply didn't have time to read the news, let alone know that just yesterday, Su Cheng was in Singapore and was awarded a "Singapore Honorary Citizen" medal.

Now, he had completely given up on Mairis; there was no chance.

After all, he also knew how big the gap between himself and Su Cheng was; he was very clear about his own capabilities.

"Mr. Mairis, when did you reach an agreement?" Li Jiacheng asked again.

"Actually, it wasn't long ago; we just reached an agreement the night before last. Mr. Su Cheng specially flew over from Hong Kong to persuade me to switch jobs, and also offered very generous terms. After careful consideration, I finally agreed to join Mr. Su Cheng's China Bus Company and become the president of China Bus Company. I expect to take office at the end of this month. This news has not been announced yet, so I would like to ask Mr. Li not to reveal this matter. Although there is nothing that cannot be said, it is not appropriate to announce it before officially taking office. I am only telling you this because we are considered friends, Mr. Li, please keep it confidential." Mairis replied.

In fact, even if it were revealed, there wouldn't be any problem, but since China Bus hadn't announced it yet, he didn't plan to make a big fuss about it either.

It was better to resign quietly from Haw Par Corporation and smoothly join China Bus. As a listed company, China Bus would definitely hold a press conference at that time.

Such a major change of leadership should be widely publicized.

Hearing Mairis' words, Li Jiacheng felt even more uncomfortable, with a sense of indignation.

What? They only reached an agreement the night before last?

In other words, he lost this management expert, Mairis, just because he was two days late?

Under normal circumstances, Mairis would definitely have agreed to the sincerity he had brought this time.

However, now it was not under normal circumstances, but an accident had occurred, an accident that left him helpless.

"Why would Mr. Su want to poach you?"

Li Jiacheng felt it was a pity that he couldn't bring Mairis to Cheung Kong Holdings. At this time, he wanted to know why Su Cheng had targeted Mairis.

After all, as far as he knew, Haw Par Corporation and Su Cheng's various enterprises should not have any cooperative relationship.

Under such circumstances, Su Cheng shouldn't know Mairis, right?

Even if he knew him, he shouldn't have personally come to invite Mairis to join, right? With Su Cheng's status, he should have sent a subordinate to talk, instead of coming in person.

Although Mairis had a certain reputation in Southeast Asia and was an expert-level talent, in Li Jiacheng's view, Su Cheng had a wealth of talent under his command, and he wouldn't have specially traveled a long distance to personally invite an expert.

Therefore, he wanted to die knowing why.

Last time, Su Cheng took away Hutchison Whampoa, which he had his eye on, that was one thing.

Unexpectedly, this time Su Cheng once again took away the talent he had his eye on.

How could it be such a coincidence?

He didn't seem to have offended Su Cheng, right?

Su Cheng was someone he absolutely dared not offend, unless he didn't want to stay in Hong Kong.

But Li Jiacheng also wanted to know whether Su Cheng was targeting him, or whether it was a coincidence.

If he was targeting him, then he would have to wait until he returned to Hong Kong and personally visit Su Cheng with sincerity.

After all, his main industries were in Hong Kong.

Since Su Cheng went to East Ying and disbanded the famous Yamakou-gumi, the big bosses in Hong Kong had reached a consensus, that is, you can offend anyone, but you can't offend Su Cheng.

"This is not a secret. Since Mr. Li wants to know, let me tell you about the situation between me and Mr. Su.

You should also know that Haw Par Corporation's development has encountered a bottleneck. If we want to take it to the next level, we can only continue to expand the market. However, Haw Par Corporation's products are almost only popular in the Chinese community or in Southeast Asia.

People in Europe and the United States are not interested in our products at all. We also tried to open up the market in the United States, but the result was that we could only sell a little in the Chinatowns of some cities, and the sales were very low.

In East Ying, our market development was also not very smooth, and the sales were far from reaching expectations. After investigation, it was difficult for our products to be accepted by their nationals in a short period of time. Even though we spent a lot of money on advertising for this purpose, it was still useless.

As the president of Haw Par Corporation, my responsibility is to develop Haw Par Corporation better, so I wanted to get Haw Par Corporation's products into the Oracle Brand Experience Store, hoping that this would allow our product sales to surge again.

To this end, I went to Hong Kong many times, hoping to visit Mr. Su Cheng, but I was never able to see him.

I talked to Mr. Zhang Qizheng, and he told me very definitely that the Oracle Brand Experience Store would not allow products from companies other than Mr. Su Cheng's to enter.

Therefore, this matter came to nothing.

I originally thought that I had no chance with Mr. Su, but what I didn't expect was that he would come to me in person, and in the end, I accepted his invitation."

Mairis talked about how he and Su Cheng met and how he was invited by Su Cheng to join.

In fact, he himself didn't know how he was noticed by Su Cheng.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Li Jiacheng this; he would just keep it in his heart.

After all, Su Cheng would become his boss at the end of this month, and it didn't matter how he was targeted by Su Cheng.

Next, to steadily experience a new career was the most important thing he had to face.

Hearing Mairis' words, Li Jiacheng felt as if a weight had been lifted from his heart.

It seemed that Su Cheng was not targeting him, and all of this was just a coincidence.

Since that was the case, he was relieved.

Li Jiacheng felt very regretful that he had not been able to acquire this top talent, Mairis.

But this was just regret. As Mairis said, there were countless top talents in the world, and he could find a replacement as long as he put in some effort.

In addition, this day was considered a waste.

In fact, he still had many important tasks in Hong Kong that needed his approval.

However, since things had come to this, there seemed to be nothing to say. This mission to Singapore was a complete failure. (End of this chapter)